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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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You cannot create employees without first creating employers.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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